Trip~!!!

I decide to travel from Memphis to West side. One of my dreams is trip with friends by a camping car. My final destination is California. At first, I have to make plan how to go there and where I should stop by. I am going to visit several tourist attractions on my way. I will take 55th highway to Memphis for watching Graceland which is a big house that Elvis Presly had lived until 42 years old. In addition, I am going to appreciate one of blues in Memphis because Memphis is original place to create blues. After finishing trip of Memphis, I will go to Arkansas on 40th highway which is connected to California. There is very famous hot spring national park in there. So, I will enjoy hot spring and camp there. Next spot is Oklahoma. Oklahoma is also located on 40th highway. The reason why I want to visit here is that I really hope to go to National Cowboy museum located in Oklahoma. Cowboy is one of my heroes when I was so young. I can still remember that I screamed out when I watched western movies. I will change 40th highway to 25th highway at New Mexico to go to Denver of Colorado state. Denver has big and famous architecture museum and Colorado has very beautiful environment. I will do bike riding. Since there is excellent bike rode, I expect to see spectacular scene of awesome landscape. I will stay at there at least for 3days. Even though Colorado has great hotels and accommodations, it is not my purpose to use these luxury hotels. There are 39 Colorado camping sites located in the San Juan National Forest. The most popular Colorado camping sites in the San Juan National Forest are near the larger lakes, major highways, and communities. I will stay one of those beautiful sites. My final destination is California. In order for the place, I have to take 70th highway. But I will decide which 15th highway I should take at Utah. If I take 15th highway downward, I can go to Las Vegas. On the contrary, If I take 15th highway upward, I will see salt lake city. The answer is definitely Las Vegas!!! Who wants to go to salt lake city instead of Las Vegas??!! Yes maybe someone wants. However, I want to play gambling as main character of movie and there is a big tourist attraction which is involved in 100 places where people must visit before they die. The place is Grand Canyon. I will play gamble at MCM, Bellagio, Wyen and so on. I do not have a suspicion that I ‘m going to hit jackpot lol~! Moreover, I am sure that it would be awesome to take a picture at Grand Canyon. Maybe at that time, my destination would be very close to us. We will departure to California State for Los Angeles, San Diego, and Long beach with 15th highway. Actually, there are a lot of interesting places in there such as Hollywood, cities, Disney Concert Hall, Universal Studios, Warner Bros. Studios, and much more places. I cannot count all of attractions. Finally, after enjoying those places, I will arrive at San Francisco!! I can say that Golden Bridge will hit my heart!! Actually, main purpose of this trip is just for Golden Bridge. Lol~! I hope that this plan is true..




colorado- camping pic




I really wanna ride a bike at there (Colorado)



Beautiful art museum in Colorado



This is very famous architecture which is Desney in LA~!

Imagination ----------------------------------------------------------------------
One day when I was going to Denver on 25th highway, I saw one guy walking along highway without any car. He gave me very urgent signal. We stopped and took him into our car. His name is Daichi. He was supposed to go to Salk lake city. But his car was broken up and he even did not have any cell phone. Walking was only thing that he could do. We served some food and drink to him. However, when we arrived at Denver and took a rest, he disappeared. Even though we were worried about him, we just kept going our way because we believed he can come over his destination by himself. However, after few hours, we realized that he stole our money, food, drink, and even our precious sexy magazines!! We were so frustrated and upset. We were just going to Las Vegas with only little money. But, we could not believe our eyes when we went inside one of hotel casinos. There was him at there. He was perfectly paying attention to gamble machine. He could not notice when we even approached to him very closely. Finally, we caught him and deprived him of our stuff again and then kicked his ass. He escaped from us. After the happening, we cannot see his face again so far.

Anti-smoking advertisement

My vice is tardy. Whenever I go to somewhere to meet my friends, I am always late at least 5 or 10 minutes. I tried to make an effort to fix my bad habit by this way to rearrange my watch 10 minutes faster than real time. However, even though I did, I was able to find myself calculating real time unconsciously when appointment time came to me. Sometime, this habit caused conflicts with others. So, nowadays I am trying to go out of my house as soon as possible when I got appointment with someone. But, I am still late whenever I meet Daichi. It is not easy for me.




“You are killing your children unconsciously”

I am really interested in anti-smoking advertisement especially about children. They have no power to complain and no idea how much smoke could affect them as much as adults. We must protect them from smokers. This picture is one of my best anti-smoking ad about children of my life.


I picked up this anti-smoking advertisement for smoking parents who have babies. We already know that smoking has negative effects on people. So, they try to avoid the risk to affect their children. However, I saw very shocking article several days ago. The research presents that even though smokers who have babies make sort of vigorous efforts to protect their children from their smoke, such as going out of their house to smoke, washing hands before touching babies, washing teeth after smoking and so on, the babies who are exposed the environment that parents smoke have almost the same density of nicotine in their body as much as light smokers who smoke 1 or 2 things per one day. They are killing their babies unintentionally!! This research teaches us that the most effective way not to affect others is just stop smoking. No matter what kinds of efforts you make, it is not effective rather than stopping cigarette.


Actually, there is not impressive and kind of grotesque advertisement in my country. Korea government does allow advertisers to use such pictures. Only the words of caution are printed on products. But, sometimes, I could see such very strong advertisement pictures on cigarette cases while I traveled to other countries. Someone says that such pictures are so excessive grotesque that it could have negative effects not only smokers but also non-smokers. However, even so, I think such shocking advertisement is much more effective and practical way to warn danger to people. For example, when I saw picture printed on a cigarette case which is related to cancer caused by smoking, I could not forget about it for a while. Yes, I know this way would be able to bring side effect. But, as people know, cigarettes are addictive. That means we need sort of strong way to release addiction and such pictures are true not false. That could be happened in smokers by smoking. So, I really want my government to accept these stop smoking campaigns of other countries and allow to advertisers to use effective method rather than now.

Ideal language school

We discussed about how makes a perfect language school. Jess, Michelle, and I prefer to establish a collage only for adult and Luisfe wants a school for kids. Each of them including me has somewhat different thoughts on an ideal school. Jess and Michelle would like to make a school in big city such as New York or Seoul. Luisfe also prefers that. However, my thought is little bit different. So, I’ll show my opinion about ideal school what I think.


At first, I think that students should make an effort to use language which they want to learn for whole days. So, I am going to build my school in country side which is adjacent to a big city but the place should have convenient public transportation to City. This means that all students must live in a dormitory. I believe that this place helps student to pay attention to their study more efficiently. They should speak foreign language during semester. Unless they speak, they would get penalty on their grade. I do not want to build only one school. If I establish English school, I will build one school in Korea and another one will be built in one of states in USA. If I build up Japanese school, I will make the school in Japan. So, I will provide an opportunity to study in native place with students who get good grade. The number of students should not be over 16 people for efficiency and group study. Their teachers must be native speaker. However, even though the teachers are native, they should know about Korea history, culture, custom, and even Korean language. I will give them who will be a teacher very difficult test. Only the people who pass this exam can be teacher. Of course, they will get a lot of money compared to other normal teachers. I think that teachers can affect their students directly. Therefore, they must have big responsibility for students and the method to figure out who has such qualification is asking about questions that I mentioned above. Tuition is free. This school is supported by Korea education department (I hope). This school only operates from Monday to Friday. But the special thing is that students do not need to attend to next whole week, if they had class on last week. Teachers should teach students as much as they can for one week. So, students would have a lot of tasks. However, such tasks are not traditional homework such as reading, writing, and so on. The tasks are activity. If topic of class is America food culture, students should go somewhere to take a video about their interview with American. If students learned about American movie, they should take a movie with friends, foreigners, or whoever. But they should do their task in foreign language. That is why they have kind of big holidays. So, in every last week, teachers and students evaluate other students’ video and give feedback. All activity fees should be supported by school, if they bring receipt which is reasonable.


I know this school is just ideal school. But, if I earn huge money($100,000,000) in the future, I will do that!! lol~!

compliment and insult

We played role play exercise of pregnant situation. We assumed that we are in famous restaurant and then suddenly someone comes to me in order to say “hello”. Luise was someone and we were eating together. In this situation, Luis said that congratulation~! Finally you got a baby~! How long have you had your angle?? However, actually, she was not pregnant. So, she just tried to avoid this situation with joke. She said “Oh.. um.. yeah nice to meet you. Yes right I think I have to stop eating anymore hahaha”. And then Luise said “Oh.. alright.. Sorry and I’m sorry to interrupt your dinner nice to meet you, too.”


I think that we have almost the same way to compliment and insult of the world. But, even so, there are little bit differences each other.


At first, in USA, Americans would like to compliment others. Whenever I attend my classes, I can see the situation that professor compliments students or students do that each other, sometimes, it is just simple expression though. However, in Korea, even though we compliment, it does not happen as much as America. We only applaud in the situation when we really need and they really deserve getting praise. I think Chile has middle characteristics between America and Korea. Sometimes, they express aggressively and sometimes they rarely compliment. Another interesting thing is that when Korean gets praise from others, we do not tend to accept compliment directly. For instance, if somebody says “Wow it is very nice shirt~!”, we almost respond like this “really? No.. it is not good as much as you think” Korean regard such this expression as polite expression. If we say “Yes, I think so”, it can be seen kind of rude.


The way to insult is quite similar to each country. The most common thinking accepted by people is that we do not have to insult others directly, even though somebody makes me so upset except for special situation. If we are in the situation when we need to complain about something, it is best method to explain what is wrong and correct indirectly and politely. But, I think insult depends on each personality. In Korea, we have always been educated about the thing which we have to respect others even in unreasonable situation. However, one friend of mine does not care about such courtesy. Of course, he has quite good manner, unless he get an unreasonable disadvantage. In USA, they have also such person like a friend of mind. That is why I think that insult depends on personality rather than country’s custom [of course, culture of country cannot be neglected.]


Especially, Jess said those characteristics of compliment and insult are slightly different from states. When Jess went to New York, she waited for ferry to visit the statue of liberty. After they allowed people to go inside ferry, so many people tried to get in simultaneously and there was someone who held a baby and pushed a baby cart in the line for ferry. Since she could not control herself with babies, it was little bit delayed to get in ferry. In this situation, someone beyond the woman yelled out hurry up at her. Jess said “if the place was located in Mississippi, such horrible event did not happen.”


As we can see, we have almost the same reaction in these situations. Even though there are little bit different things, it can be ignored in terms of having similar situation. Moreover, I think the most common thing is that we always try to respect others and such way to respect is quite similar no matter where we live in.